# Roycea

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{{short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
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|image = Roycea pycnophylloides - Flickr - Kevin Thiele.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Roycea pycnophylloides](/source/Roycea_pycnophylloides)''
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|taxon = Roycea
|authority = [C.A.Gardner](/source/Charles_Gardner_(botanist))<ref name=apni>{{APNI2|id=77696|name=''Roycea''}}</ref><ref name=gardner>{{cite journal|author=Gardner, C.A. |date=1948|title= Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis, XII|journal= Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia|volume= 32|pages= 77, t. II|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53031422}}</ref>
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'''''Roycea''''' is a genus of plants formerly in the family [Chenopodiaceae](/source/Chenopodiaceae), and now in the [Amaranthaceae](/source/Amaranthaceae). The genus was first described in 1948 by [Charles Austin Gardner](/source/Charles_Gardner_(botanist)),<ref name=apni/> and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the [Perth Herbarium](/source/Western_Australian_Herbarium)).<ref name=gardner/> The entire genus is endemic to [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia).<ref name="florabase">{{FloraBase|id=|name=''Roycea''}}</ref> There are no synonyms.<ref name="apni" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6979-1|title=Roycea C.A.Gardner {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science|website=Plants of the World Online|access-date=2020-03-22}}</ref>

==Species==
(listed by both [Plants of the World online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online),<ref name=":0" /> and [FloraBase](/source/FloraBase).)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/search/advanced.php|title=Roycea (genus & species) FloraBase—the Western Australian Flora|publisher=Western Australian HerbariumBiodiversity and Conservation Science|website=florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au|language=en|access-date=2020-03-22}}</ref>

*''[Roycea divaricata](/source/Roycea_divaricata)'' <small>[Paul G.Wilson](/source/Paul_Graham_Wilson)</small>
*''[Roycea pycnophylloides](/source/Roycea_pycnophylloides)'' <small>C.A.Gardner</small>
*''[Roycea spinescens](/source/Roycea_spinescens)'' <small>C.A.Gardner</small>

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Category:Roycea
Category:Eudicots of Western Australia
Category:Taxa named by Charles Gardner
Category:Amaranthaceae genera

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